Mickey Crowe (41) was a star basketball player at JFK Prep in St. Nazianz before alcohol and drugs derailed his future. A book detailing his life has recently hit shelves.

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A lot has changed for Mickey Crowe since he was a hoops legend at tiny JFK Prep in St. Nazianz, as chronicled in the book "Over and Back/Mickey Crowe: The Strange and Troubled Life of a Wisconsin High School Basketball Legend."

But boy, those seasons at the private school in rural Manitowoc County were something.

In the mid-1970s, Crowe was a phenom before there were phenoms, the "Pistol Pete" of Wisconsin. He even sported long hair and wore long, loose socks like his idol. ...